Presidential Addresses

Sharon Murphy
"Doing Business in the Public Interest" [ Sharon Ann Murphy's Presidential Address ]
2024 BHC Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island

Daniel Wadhwani
"Entrepreneurial Imaginaries: Finding the Fortune in Futures" [ ]
2023 BHC Meeting, Detroit, MI, United States

Andrea Lluch
"Business History in Times of Disruption: Embracing Complexity and Diversity A View from Latin America" [ Business History in Times of Disruption; 2022 BHC Presidential Address ]
2022 BHC Meeting , Mexico City

Neil Rollings
""The Vast and Unsolved Enigma of Power": Business History and Business Power" [ Video ]
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting, Hopin Virtual Events Platform

Edward Balleisen
"The Prospects for Collaborative Research in Business History" [ Video ]
2020 BHC Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina

Teresa da Silva Lopes
"'The Nature of the Firm'—and the Eternal Life of the Brand" [ ]
2019 BHC Meeting, Cartagena, Colombia

Mary O'Sullivan
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Capitalism" [ ]
2018 BHC Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland

Walter Friedman
"Recent Trends in Business History Research: Capitalism, Democracy, and Innovation" [ ]
2017 BHC Meeting, Denver, Colorado

Margaret B.W. Graham
"When the Corporation Almost Displaced the Entrepreneur: Rethinking the Political Economy of Research and Development" [ ]
2016 BHC Meeting, Portland, Oregon

Mary Yeager
"Women Change Everything" [ ]
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting, Miami, Florida

Per H. Hansen
"From Finance Capitalism to Financialization: A Cultural and Narrative Perspective on 150 Years of Financial History" [ ]
2014 BHC Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany

Kenneth Lipartito
"Connecting the Cultural and the Material in Business History" [ ]
2013 BHC Meeting, Columbus, Ohio

Margaret Levenstein
"Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking Historically about Firm Responses to Competition" [ ]
2012 BHC Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

Richard John
"Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered " [ ]
2011 BHC Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri

Mark H. Rose
"United States Bank Rescue Politics, 2008–2009: A Business Historian’s View" [ ]
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting, Milan, Italy

Pamela Laird
"Looking Toward the Future: Expanding Connections for Business Historians" [ ]
2008 BHC Meeting, Sacramento, California

William J. Hausman
"The Accidental Business Historian" [ ]
2007 BHC Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio

Richard Sylla
"Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790-1840" [ ]
2006 BHC Meeting, Toronto, Ontario

JoAnne Yates
"How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-Side Turn" [ ]
2005 BHC Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Patrick Fridenson
"Business Failure and the Agenda of Business History " [ ]
2004 BHC Meeting, Le Creusot, France

Geoffrey Jones
"Business Enterprises and Global Worlds " [ ]
2002 BHC Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware

Naomi Lamoreaux
"Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty" [ ]
2001 BHC Meeting, Miami, Florida

Jeremy Atack
"Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence in the Weaving of Business and Economic History: Western River Steamboats and the Transportation Revolution Revisited" [ ]
1999 BHC Meeting , Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Leslie Hannah
"America, the Cold War, and I" [ ]
1998 BHC Meeting, College Park, Maryland

Mansel G. Blackford
"Business History and Beyond" [ ]
1997 BHC Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

William H. Becker
"Managerial Culture and the American Political Economy" [ ]
1996 BHC Meeting, Columbus, Ohio

Edwin J. Perkins
"Banks and Brokers" [ ]
1995 BHC Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

K. Austin Kerr
"Connections" [ ]
1993 BHC Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts

Louis Galambos
"What Makes Us Think We Can Put Business Back into Business History?" [ ]
1992 BHC Meeting, Pasadena, California

William Lazonick
"Business History and Economics" [ ]
1991 BHC Meeting, Toronto, Ontario

Thomas K. McCraw
"Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes in Business History" [ ]
1990 BHC Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland

Wayne Broehl, Jr.
"The Family Business" [ ]
1989 BHC Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts

Mira Wilkins
"Business History as a Discipline" [ ]
1988 BHC Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

Morton Rothstein
"Innocence and Guilt, Comedy and Adventure: Business History as a Human Activity " [ ]
1986 BHC Meeting, Columbus, Ohio

Irene D. Neu Jones
"My Nineteenth-Century Network: Erastus Corning, Benjamin Ingham, Edmond Forstall " [ ]
1985 BHC Meeting, New York, New York

Paul Uselding
"Recent Trends and Historical Contexts in the Rise and Fall of Economic Regions " [ ]
1984 BHC Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut

Fred Bateman
"Business History in an Era of Economic Transformation " [ ]
1983 BHC Meeting, Peoria, Illinois

Richard W. Barsness
"Transportation in Business History " [ ]
1982 BHC Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota

Harold D. Woodman
"The Business of Agriculture " [ ]
1981 BHC Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

Thomas C. Cochran
"Forty Years of the Cultural Approach to History " [ ]
1980 BHC Meeting, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Herman Freudenberger
"An Agenda for Business History " [ ]
1979 BHC Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
"Business History: A Personal Experience " [ ]
1978 BHC Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware

Donald L. Kemmerer
"John E. Rovensky, 1880-1970, Industrialist and Banker " [ ]
1977 BHC Meeting, Columbus, Ohio

Ross M. Robertson
"American Business and American Life: A Bicentennial Appraisal " [ ]
1976 BHC Meeting, Moline, Illinois

Herman E. Krooss
"Some Random Thoughts on Business and Government " [ ]
1975 BHC Meeting, Evanston, Illinois

Harold F. Williamson
"The Business History Conference and Business History: Some Reflections " [ ]
1974 BHC Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware

Arthur M. Johnson
"Business History Research: The Past as Prologue" [ ]
1973 BHC Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas

Richard C. Overton
"Unfinished Business: A Challenge to Craftsmen" [ ]
1972 BHC Meeting, Chicago, Illinois